Impington Mill Impington · Cambridgeshire · England

Impington Mill is a smock corn mill in Histon and Impington. It has a two-storey hexagonal weatherboarded smock body on a three-storey brick base, with an ogee cap, four patent sails, and winding by fantail. The mill was built in 1776 on the base of a seventeenth-century post mill, then raised on the tower around 1850. Patent sails were added during that later phase, giving the mill much of its later historic character.

The mill’s twentieth-century record shows both preservation and decline. It was photographed preserved with stocks in the 1930s, and later images record it in disused or derelict condition. Despite that decline, the windmill survived as a complete and highly visible smock mill rather than being reduced to a stump or base.

The mill was listed at Grade II* in 1962. Restoration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries returned the structure to a more complete external form. The sails were fitted in 2007, and later photographs show the restored windmill with cap, sails, and fantail. The original machinery remained awaiting refurbishment, preserving the possibility of fuller technical restoration. Impington Mill now survives as a restored smock corn mill and one of the most complete windmill landmarks in the Cambridge area.